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Quotes About Fire

This night of no moonThere is no way to meet him.I rise in longing—My breast pounds, a leaping flame,My heart is consumed in fire.
~ Ono no Komachi
I long for him most during these hot moonless nights. I lie awake, hot, the growing fires of passion bursting, blazing in my heart.
~ Ono no Komachi
I'm told that some men heat their bath water by burning the love letters they get from women
~ Osamu Dazai
Please. Fire can't burn underwater." "Think before you speak, young master. Water contains oxygen, doesn't it? Where there's oxygen, there's no reason you can't have fire.
~ Osamu Dazai
Selagi peradaban berkembang, begitu pula nafsu. Api akan membesar terus dan menyebabkan berbagai malapetaka. Pada akhirnya seluruh dunia akan binasa. Jika manusia ingin selamat, api harus dipadamkan. Itu berarti meredam nafsu dan hidup wajar.
~ Osamu Tezuka
I was born in the night of the second and third Of January, ninety-something-or-other, An unreliable year, and the centuries Surround me with fire.
~ Osip Mandelstam
You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents--burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose--the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God. But you don't eliminate it, God does.
~ Oswald Chambers
Allow God to have complete liberty in your life when you speak. Before God's message can liberate other people, His liberation must first be real in you. Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to "set your words on fire" for His glory.
~ Oswald Chambers
Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to "set your words on fire" for His glory.
~ Oswald Chambers
The sight of blood inflamed its anger into phrensy. Gnashing its teeth, and flashing fire from its eyes, it flew upon the body of the girl
~ Otto Penzler
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
~ Otto Weininger
As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
~ Pablo Neruda
The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven.
~ Pam Grout
A hint of fire in his eyes, he glanced up at her. "If that displeases you, lass, I can leave you here for the next savior who comes along.
~ Pamela Clare
Next to the fire is where you are born and where you die. Around the fire is where encounters are sealed.
~ Unknown
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.
~ Pat Conroy
Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Anna: "I thought Indians built fires with fiction." Charles: "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster.
~ Patricia Briggs
Fire is a powerful thing. It cleanses as it destroys- and it brings light to darkness.
~ Patricia Briggs
He did not except the fire to destroy everything they hadn't found.
~ Patricia Briggs
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
~ Patricia Cornwell
At night, low hearths will send up wispy curls of smoke fragrant with a dozen dinners, and darkness will clothe the land.
~ Patricia McCormick
It was as if she had been terribly burned. As if the light of the fire that once charged her had run its course and now, years later, had left her extinguished. But wasn't that the nature of fire, he decided, once its fuel was done—to leave just the exhausted frame?
~ Unknown